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Maryland Transit Caucus

@CaucusTransit

Bipartisan group of Maryland state legislators committed to building a sustainable, equitable, world class mobility system. 🚌🚇🚊🚴🏾‍♀️🚶🏾‍♀️♥️

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Joined January 2020
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Federal Transit Admn
@FTA_DOT23 Oct 2023
This October, join us in recognizing National Pedestrian Safety Month, which highlights everyone’s right to walk or roll safely on the nation’s pathways. Join @USDOT’s “call to action” campaign supporting the agency’s National Roadway Safety Strategy. bit.ly/46ExKsN
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MTA Maryland
@mtamaryland20 Sep 2023
MDOT MTA World Car Free Day - Free rides on all MTA modes -- MDOT MTA is turning the annual World Car Free Day, September 22, into a weekend-long celebration by offering free rides on MARC Train, Local Bus, Light Rail, Metro Subwa... mta.maryland.gov/service-ale…
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Shelly Hettleman@shellyhettleman12 Oct 2022
Today is national #WalkToSchoolDay! Walking to school benefits students, the community, and the environment. Please take care today and every day on your morning commute.
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Mary A. Lehman She/Her@MaryLehman_D112 Oct 2022
Today is National Walk to School Day! The MD Transit Caucus encourages kids who can walk safely to school to do so today. It’s good for student health and the environment!
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Marc Korman@mkorman12 Oct 2022
Celebrating Walk to School Day with AMK, like we do every school day. We are lucky to have a safe route to school but many do not and we need to strive to do better for all of our students. Thanks @CaucusTransit for highlighting the day.
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It's #WalktoSchoolDay! As a mom, I'm glad for the exercise walking to school gives our family. And as a State Delegate, today is an opportunity to highlight pedestrian safety issues on routes to school. If you have concerns, please reach out. #VisionZero
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Marc Korman@mkorman22 Sep 2022
The @CaucusTransit is recognizing Car Free Day and I’m celebrating with a 7000 Series commute to work on Metro.
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Jerome Alexander Horne@jahorne8 Apr 2021
If you're now comfortable going inside to a bar, restaurant, or getting on a plane, then riding transit shouldn't be that big of a deal to you either... Just saying. Article from last summer. scientificamerican.com/artic… – at Indianapolis, IN
There Is Little Evidence That Mass Transit Poses a Risk of Coronavirus Outbreaks

There Is Little Evidence That Mass Transit Poses a Risk of Coronavirus Outbreaks

A major drop in public transit use coincides with concerns about reducing air pollution that can exacerbate lung conditions

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NACTO@NACTO5 Apr 2021
.@SecretaryPete said it: "How that manual is written and what it calls for could actually have a lot of consequences in terms of how people get around, in terms of safety, even in terms of equity." Now is he going to fix it? #MUTCD rollcall.com/2021/04/05/a-tr…
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David Zipper@DavidZipper1 Apr 2021
Spoiler alert: There aren't any. doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2021.0…
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Pompeii 79 AD. Walkable streets, mixed-use, street-facing shops, gentle density. Notice that Roman urbanism two millennia ago produces a more livable city than almost any car-centered developments we’re churning out in the Americas today.
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Brent Toderian
@BrentToderian12 Feb 2021
“But traffic didn’t get any better when the new lanes were added. In fact, traffic got even worse.” Via ⁦@voxdotcom⁩ How many more articles must be written — how many tweets — before it’s common knowledge that more lanes just induce more driving? vox.com/videos/22280067/high…
How highways make traffic worse

How highways make traffic worse

Highway expansion projects don’t do what you might think they do.

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Secretary Pete Buttigieg
@SecretaryPete22 Mar 2021
American communities could be as good as or better than any other place in the world when it comes to mobility options—we just have to make that choice.
Brent Toderian (@BrentToderian) profile pictureBrent Toderian
@BrentToderian11 Aug 2020
The most important thing about this amazing Paris transformation is how fast it happened — how fast people on bikes “appeared” — once streets were transformed. You can’t write this off as “Paris was always this way,” because it wasn’t. It took leadership.
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Sec. Greg Slater thanks workers on Transit Driver Appreciation Day. “It’s a tough job that has been made even more difficult by #COVID19, but the drivers who make up our workforce are as dedicated as they come.” More: news.mdot.maryland.gov. @mtamaryland @BWI_Airport #TDAD2021
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NACTO@NACTO18 Mar 2021
Transit drivers carried cities through the hardest parts of the COVID-19 pandemic, just as they'll carry us through recovery and into a more just and resilient future. To operators around the world -- thank you. #TransitDriverAppreciationDay
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Secretary Pete Buttigieg
@SecretaryPete17 Mar 2021
America can have the best infrastructure in the world, if we choose to. It's up to us. teapawt.net/AlecStapp/status/13716…
Alec Stapp (@AlecStapp) profile pictureAlec Stapp
@AlecStapp16 Mar 2021
“Can you build a tunnel under a highway in one weekend?” is a good litmus test for state capacity. (The Netherlands passes, the US does not).
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League of American Bicyclists@BikeLeague10 Mar 2021
Black and Native Americans are disproportionately represented in fatal pedestrian crashes, @SmartGrowthUSA and @completestreets' #DangerousByDesign shows. One reason: structural racism in how infrastructure is funded and built within communities of color. smartgrowthamerica.org/dange…
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NACTO@NACTO5 Mar 2021
Traffic: 🔽 13% Traffic deaths: 🔼 8%. Tragic, yet expected. With emptier streets, little has stopped drivers from traveling at dangerous speeds. npr.org/2021/03/05/974006735…

'Tragic': Driving Was Down In 2020, But Traffic Fatality Rates Surged

A report estimates that traffic deaths rose 8% last year compared to 2019. When measured by number of miles driven, fatalities surged by 24%, the highest in nearly a century.

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Calvin Gladney@SmartGrowthCEO1 Mar 2021
"We need to think about not just 'let's get to a boulevard,' but some moment of restorative justice for the folks that suffered, as well as some preservation & prevention for the folks who are still there," said Calvin Gladney, CEO of Smart Growth America. cnn.com/2021/02/27/cars/butt…
Highways that destroyed Black neighborhoods are crumbling. Some want to undo that legacy | CNN...

Highways that destroyed Black neighborhoods are crumbling. Some want to undo that legacy | CNN...

Njeri Camara, 61, can’t visit the Shreveport, Louisiana home where she was born. Like many Black homes and neighborhoods across the country in the 1960s, it was bulldozed to clear space for highways.

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Regional Plan
@RegionalPlan28 Feb 2021
Transit agencies may not have a direct say over land use decisions, but prioritizing the fundamentals of good service can trigger a virtuous cycle that helps create more transit-friendly places. @DavidZipper @CityLab bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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